Setting the Paces

Setting the Paces
Studio album by BOAT
Released October 27, 2009
Genre Indie Rock
Length 38:14
Label Magic Marker Records
BOAT chronology
Let's Drag Our Feet
(2007)		 '''Setting the Paces'''
(2009)		 Dress Like Your Idols
(2011)

Setting the Paces was the third full-length album by indie rock band BOAT, released in 2009.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media(7.5/10) [2]
Sputnik Music [3]

Setting the Paces received largely positive reviews from critics. Allmusic's Tim Sendra describes the album as having "debts owed to Pavement, Television Personalities, and the Banana Splits, and with a bouncy energy that makes the album very easy to like."[4] Pitchfork Media's David Bevan claims the songs give "way to a full-blast power chord workout and on to a chuggable chorus... At the center of it all is one gooey, delicious hook... Every song is irrepressible in its own right."[5] Sputnik Music calls the album "infectious from start to finish" and says the songs "flourish as background music to fun-filled happy-go-lucky June afternoons."[6]

Track listing

  1. "Friends Since 1989" – 2:31
  2. "Lately... (I've Been on My Back)" – 3:11
  3. "Tough Talking the Tulips" – 2:36
  4. "Interstate 5" – 1:53
  5. "100 Calorie Man" – 2:02
  6. "We Want It! We Want It!" – 3:25
  7. "The Name Tossers" – 3:55
  8. "Jeff Fell Dream" – 1:41
  9. "Prince of Tacoma" – 2:43
  10. "God Save the Man, Who Isn't All That Super" – 3:04
  11. "(Do the) Magic Centipede" – 2:07
  12. "Calcium Commuter" – 2:49
  13. "Reverie" – 2:34
  14. "You're Muscular" – 3:43

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/setting-the-paces-r1656327/review
  2. ↑ "Pitchfork: Album Reviews: BOAT: Setting the Paces". Pitchforkmedia.com. 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
  3. ↑ http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/33092/BOAT-Setting-the-Paces/
  4. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/setting-the-paces-r1656327/review
  5. ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13816-setting-the-paces/
  6. ↑ http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/33092/BOAT-Setting-the-Paces/
  7. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/artist/boat-p812766/biography
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